泸州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Kenny still remembers the class discussion________the teacher asked students to share what they wanted to be when they grew up.

A．why

B．which

C．that

D．where

2、Recently, scientists have started a debate on _______the computers will “think” like human in half a century.

A．where

B．whether

C．whose

D．which

3、   if I had arrived yesterday without letting you know beforehand?

A. Would you be surprised   B. Were you surprised

C. Had you been surprised   D. Would you have been surprised

4、--- Don’t forget to have this machine fixed this afternoon., Darling.

--- Oh, you reminded me of what I otherwise   .

A. may have forgotten   B. must have forgotten   C. had forgotten   D. would have forgotten

5、More subway lines______ to make travelling easy in Beijing in the coming years.

A．will build

B．will be built

C．build

D．are built

6、For all the failure of his business, he remains optimistic and ________ untroubled by his problems.

A. hopefully B. seemingly

C. rarely D. frequently

7、The successful candidate will be adaptable, take ownership of and develop in the role by taking initiative, being motivated and ________ high standards.

A. ensured   B. to ensure   C. ensuring     D. to be ensured

8、She’s late for work every day, but she still has the nerve to lecture me about ______.

A. punctuality   B. priority   C. preference   D. privilege

9、(2014·天津卷)Anxiously, she took the dress out of the package and tried it on, only _________ it didn’t fit

A．to find

B．found

C．finding

D．having found

10、This restaurant has become popular for its wide ______ of foods that suit all tastes and pockets.

A.production B.offer

C.range D.division

11、You’d better write down the phone number of that botel for future ________ .

A. reference B. purpose

C. progress D. memory

12、I used to quarrel a lot with my parents，but now we________fine.

A.look out B.stay up

C.carry on D.get along

13、 The farmers’ living conditions have improved _______ ever since the policy of supporting agriculture was introduced.

A. differently B. roughly

C. approximately D. significantly

14、Her shoes ________ her dress; they look very well together.

A．suit

B．fit

C．compare

D．match

15、The laptops made by our company sell best, but nobody could have guessed the place in the market that they ________ 20 years ago.

A. had had B. had C. were having D. were to have

16、You ________ see a doctor because you have got a high fever.

A.will B.must C.may D.might

17、Enthusiastic fans would rather they________ the super star at the airport tomorrow morning.

A. should meet   B. would meet

C. met   D. were to meet

18、Even though the way Lin Daiyu expresses her feelings may be ________  to a modern audience, it is rooted in her character and makes who she is.

A. allergic   B. foreign

C. sensitive   D. fundamental

19、The professor could tell by the ______ look in Maria’s eyes that she didn’t understand a single word of his lecture.

A.cold B.blank C.innocent D.empty

20、--- How messy it is! Kevin, can I come in?

--- Oh, I'm so sorry. The house____.

A. is being cleaned   B. has been cleaned

C. is cleaning   D. was cleaned

21、   The ruins of a Maya city have been discovered in Guatemala with the help of the remote sensing technique LiDAR. This lost city envelops sites like Tikal, Holmul, and Witzna, but shows that these famous areas are a small part of this lost urban network.

Hidden under the jungles of the Maya Biosphere Reserve site, more than 60,000 human-made features — homes, canals, highways, and more — have been identified in aerial (从飞机上的)images collected by some international researchers headed by the PAGUNAM Foundation, a Maya cultural and natural heritage organization. Those have experts rethinking the outlines and complexity of the Maya Empire.

These ancient peoples obviously created these imaginative cultures based on their known relics (遗迹), but the new research has suggested that the size of this lost society is far beyond what experts imagined. The findings will be explored in a one-hour documentary called “Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings”, to be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel.

This breakthrough was possible thanks to LiDAR sensors, which can survey lands in 3D by bouncing pulses off the ground from unmanned air vehicles and others. LiDAR is exceptionally useful for detecting archeological(考古的)sites, as it gets through jungles and other features that hold up exploration on the ground. The technique has made many discoveries become a reality in recent years. For instance, major finds at Angkor, Cambodia and Caracol, Belize can explain what it did. The final goal is to survey Guatemala’s lowlands with it.

“There are entire cities we didn't know about now showing up in the survey data,” Francisco Estrada-Belli, one of the lead archeologists on the project, said in Nat Geo's coming documentary. “There are 20,000 square kilometres more to be explored and there are going to be hundreds of cities about the mysterious people who built this urban network there that we don’t know about, and we will push back the frontiers with the technology,” he added.

【1】What does the underlined word "Those" in paragraph 2 refer to?

A.Jungles. B.Human-made features.

C.Researchers. D.Aerial images.

【2】What does the author want to convey in paragraph 4?

A.The working principle of LiDAR sensors.

B.The process of researching Maya civilization.

C.Great importance of Guatemalans lowlands.

D.LiDAR’s contribution to discovering the relics.

【3】Which words can best describe the lost Maya city?

A.Small and hidden. B.Famous and high-tech.

C.Vast and complex. D.Fully-explored and imaginative.

【4】What will the archeologists do next?

A.Continue to explore the unknown. B.Upgrade the LiDAR technology.

C.Study the documentary carefully. D.Build a massive urban network,

22、   Researchers at the University of Maryland have turned ordinary sheets of wood into transparent material that is nearly as clear as glass, but stronger and with better insulating properties(隔热性). It could become an energy efficient building material in the future.

Wood is made of two basic ingredients: cellulose, which are tiny fibres, and lignin (木质素),which is a glue-like material that bonds the fibres together to give it strength. The lignin also contains molecules called chromophores, which give the wood its brown color and prevent light from passing through.

Early attempts to make transparent wood involved removing the lignin, but this involved harmful chemicals, high temperatures and a lot of time, making the product expensive and somewhat fragile. The new technique is so cheap and easy that it could literally be done in a backyard.

Starting with pieces of wood a meter long and one millimeter thick, the scientists simply brushed on a solution (溶液)of hydrogen peroxide using an ordinary paint brush. When left in the sun, or under a UV lamp for an hour or so, the peroxide remove color from the brown chromophores but left the lignin undamaged, so the wood turned white. Next, they filled the wood with a tough transparent epoxy, which filled in the spaces in the wood and then hardened. This made the white wood transparent.

As window material, it would be much more resistant to accidental breakage. The clear wood is lighter than glass, with better insulating properties, which is important because windows are a major source of heat loss in buildings. It also might take less energy to produce clear wood because there are no high temperatures involved.

Transparent wood could become an alternative to glass in energy efficient buildings, or perhaps coverings for solar panels in harsh environments. There could be no end of uses.

【1】What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A．The classification of wood strength.

B．The characteristics of wood.

C．The causes of wood color.

D．The structure of wood.

【2】How did the researchers make wood transparent in the past?

A．By removing the lignin.

B．By reducing chemicals.

C．By lowering the temperature.

D．By changing the experiment site.

【3】What is the function of the epoxy?

A．To make the wood stronger.

B．To take away the brown color.

C．To turn the wood transparent.

D．To  fill the spaces in the wood.

【4】Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Replacing Glass with Wood

B．Turning Wood Transparent

C．Energy Saving Material

D．Eco-friendly Alternative

23、Four Historic Firsts for Women in Space You Might not Know About

First Woman in Space

Soviet cosmonaut(宇航员)Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space when she was launched with the Vostok 6 mission on June 16, 1963. She was selected from a pool of 400 applicants and five finalists. She was honorarily inlucted(入伍)into the Soviet Air Force so that she could join the Cosmonaut Corps. Tereshkova is the only woman ever to have been on a solo space mission.

First US Woman in Space

Sally Ride was the first American astronaut to go into orbit on June 18, 1983, as a crew member on the space shuttle Challenger for STS-7. Ride was one of 8, 000 people to answer an ad in the Stanford student newspaper seeking applicants for NASA. She was chosen to join the space program in 1978. She went on one additional mission and spent a total of 343 hours in space.

First Woman to Walk in Space

The first woman to walk in space, Svetlana Savitskaya, was also a cosmonaut. She was on her second mission when she space-walked as part of the Salyut 7-EP2 on July 17, 1984. She was also the first woman to have gone into space twice.

First Teacher to go to Space

Christa McAuliffe was a teacher and a civilian astronaut from Concord, NH who was killed with six other crew members when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986. McAuliffe was selected from more than 11, 000 applicants to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space Project. She was planning on conducting experiments and teaching two lessons from space.

【1】When did Valentina Tereshkova go to space?

A．In 1963.

B．In 1983.

C．In 1984.

D．In 1986.

【2】Who was the first woman to have gone into space twice?

A．Valentina Tereshkova.

B．Sally Ride.

C．Svetlana Savitskaya.

D．Christa McAuliffe.

【3】What is special about Christa McAuliffe?

A．She was a civilian astronaut.

B．She was on a solo space mission.

C．She conducted experiments from space successfully.

D．She was selected from 8, 000 people to join in the space project.

24、Maybe you’ve wondered what you would hear if plants could speak. A stream of gossip from the roses? Wise whispering from the branches of an old tree? A faint, high-pitched cry of terror when your older brother takes out the lawn mower(割草机)?

Ariel Novoplansky, an ecologist in Israel, is studying how plants communicate with each other. To listen in, he set up a kind of telephone game among plants in his lab. Experiment used pea plants standing in rows of containers. The center plant in each row was the target: Scientists would stress out that plant and see whether the plants on either side of it picked up any alarm signals.

The pea plants had been grown with two main roots. On one side of the stressed plant, each plant had one root in its own pot and the other reaching into a neighbor’s pot. The central plant connected to its closest neighbor, which connected to another neighbor, and so on down the line. On the other side of the stressed plant, all the plants kept their roots in their own pots unconnected to their neighbors. Then the scientists dried up the soil of the central target plant, creating a drought.

Within 15 minutes, the dried-out plant reacted the same way it would in nature: it had closed up the tiny pores(气孔) on its leaves to save water. What’s amazing is that the central plant’s closest neighbor with connected roots had also closed up its leaf pores. And after an hour, the message had traveled down the whole row of connected plants. On the other side of the pea chain, where the plants’ roots weren’t connected, all their pores stayed open. This means the warning signal traveled from the stressed plant’s roots through the soil.

Dried-out roots aren’t the only talkative plant parts scientists have discovered. When sugar maple trees are damaged, they send signals through the air telling their neighbors to produce bad-tasting chemicals. When caterpillars chew on corn leaves, nearby corn plants also make more self-defense molecules(分子). The plants around us may not be speaking with any volume, but they are saying plenty.

【1】What is the purpose of paragraph 1?

A．To make a prediction.

B．To raise a discussion.

C．To develop a theory.

D．To introduce a research.

【2】How did Novoplansky conduct his experiment?

A．By stressing out the target plant.

B．By sending alarming signals to plants.

C．By growing pea plants with different roots.

D．By drying out the soil of the plants in rows.

【3】What do we know about the pea plants according to the text?

A．They are able to communicate with the gardeners.

B．They send warning signals to others through the air.

C．They close up their leaf pores as a stress reaction.

D．They are the most talkative plants found by scientists.

【4】Where is this text probably taken from?

A．A news report.

B．A science journal.

C．A gardening guide.

D．A business magazine.

25、I had not hugged a friend or a family member for more than two years.

I hadn’t had that ______ until recently when my sister-in-law came for a brief visit. For everyone’s safety, we met outside. Despite the ______ weather in January, her hug warmed me from the inside out. I realized how much I ______ embracing loved ones — the warmth that ______ long after our arms untwined (松开).

There was war in my home town in Bosnia, so I found every moment was full of ______. On one peaceful morning, I begged my mom to let me go outside after weeks wilting (蔫) indoors. She ______ agreed. I was outside for only 10 minutes ______ I was caught in an explosion. I ______ to my neighbor’s house for safety and threw my arms around her neck while my legs were ______ underneath me. She hugged me with both arms and ______ me into her house. I was still in her arms when the ambulance arrived.

______, I made a full physical recovery, but the emotional ______ never left me. Years later there was another explosion near my house, when my father was away to buy a loaf of bread. When he came back inside, I gave him the biggest hug ______, choked in tears as I held him tight.

That same night my parents managed to arrange my escape from our war-torn city. They desperately wanted at least some of my childhood to be ______. I was 16 and came to America on my own. A generous host family took me ______. Over next several months, I suffered ______.   The only way I shared my feelings was by giving Oscar, their dog, a big ______.

Now, due to our pandemic lives, hugging a stranger is the ______ thing on our minds. For many of us, ______ hugging a relative or a friend comes with stress and anxiety because of risks and precautions (防范). I ______ that in the not-so-distant future we can safely hold one another again, a friend, relative, or a stranger.

【1】

A．love

B．courage

C．warmth

D．trust

【2】

A．cold

B．fine

C．mild

D．hot

【3】

A．regretted

B．hated

C．denied

D．missed

【4】

A．disappeared

B．remained

C．arrived

D．left

【5】

A．thrills

B．miracles

C．dangers

D．potentials

【6】

A．finally

B．hardly

C．immediately

D．simply

【7】

A．though

B．since

C．unless

D．when

【8】

A．walked

B．rushed

C．wandered

D．returned

【9】

A．aimless

B．hopeless

C．powerless

D．useless

【10】

A．dragged

B．invited

C．forced

D．persuaded

【11】

A．Hopefully

B．Painfully

C．Carefully

D．Thankfully

【12】

A．virus

B．scar

C．mark

D．cure

【13】

A．acceptable

B．admirable

C．imaginable

D．reasonable

【14】

A．normal

B．unusual

C．legal

D．exceptional

【15】

A．out

B．up

C．down

D．in

【16】

A．happiness

B．loneliness

C．calmness

D．eagerness

【17】

A．kiss

B．trust

C．hug

D．dream

【18】

A．last

B．best

C．first

D．most

【19】

A．ever

B．still

C．yet

D．even

【20】

A．warn

B．pray

C．swear

D．beg

26、阅读下面李平和韩梅梅对话，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

L：I heard there is a psychological course in our school.It teaches the basics of how to live a happy， fulfilling life in the last semester in high school.

H：A course about happiness?

L：Right.You know， a lot of students feel unhappy now because of the burdens and stresses they have.But a lot of students say they become happier after taking the course.

The course has changed their lives.

H：Miraculous.In ever thought so many grade three students care so much about happiness.I thought the most popular courses maybe maths or physics.

L：Students want to do well in study.Yet they want to be happy as well

H：Who's the teacher?Why did he come up with this idea of teaching happiness?

L：Mr.Lee.He said he had spent close to 30  years of his life being successfully unhappy.

H：What does“successfully unhappy”mean?

L：I'm not sure.I guess he is a successful man， but an unhappy man.He graduated from Harvard， and was active and excellent， and achieved a lot， but these achievements didn't make him happy.

H：Sometimes success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

L：Maybe he's too hard on hi self.He wanted to find answers， so he began to study how to be happy.He often told deeply personal stories to i lust rate points.

H：It seems that I might as well go to this class.

L：Great!You won't regret it.

（写作内容）

1.用约30个单词写出上文概要；

2.用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：

(1)高三学生是否需要”幸福心理学”这门课程；

(2)作为一名面临高考的高三学生你是如何保持良好心态的。

（写作要求）

1.写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句：

2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3.不必写标题。

（评分标准）

内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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